5 MHz for Jamaica

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Jamaican Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) has updated their National Frequency Allocation Table, providing spectrum allocation in accordance with the WRC-15 5Mhz allocation at 5351.5 – 5366.5 kHz, with a maximum power of 25 watts EIRP.
 
2nd Vice-President of the Jamaican Amateur Radio Association (JARA) Ivor Barrett 6Y5DW is promoting the use of the 60m Band.
 
Our Field Day is coming up on the weekend of June 23-25 where we will be setting up communications both voice and digital in the town of Port Antonio in the Parish of Portland on the North Eastern end of the Island. We will be operating  under the Jamaica Amateur Radio Assoc. (JARA) club's callsign 6Y5RA/p.  If you would like to make a 'sked' let me know. We can probably resonate an all band wire ant. somewhere within this "new" band.
 
Jamaica SMA National Frequency Allocation Table (p.8) - http://www.sma.gov.jm/sites/default/files/Jamaica_National_FrequencyAllocationTable_Aug_26_2016.pdf
 
Jamaican Amateur Radio Association (JARA) - http://www.jamaicaham.org/

Asteroid named after Radio Ham

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The International Astronomical Union has rewarded the space physicist and radio amateur operator Asta Pellinen-Wannberg SM3UHV by designating a celestial body in her name, Asteroid 11807 Wannberg
 
Asta Pellinen-Wannberg is a professor at the Department of Physics at Umeå University. She has made a groundbreaking effort to use scattering radar when studying meteors that are activated when small particles penetrate into the atmosphere.
 
The method is now applied to about ten stations around the world. It increases the ability to study different large flows, smaller particles and details in their interaction with the atmosphere, says Asta Pellinen-Wannberg.
 
Asta is chair of the Swedish National Committee for Radio Science SNRV and has researched together with Gudmund Wannberg SM3BYA, who served as Technical Manager at EISCAT Radar in Kiruna and Associate Professor at Umeå University.
 
SSA in Google English - http://tinyurl.com/SwedenSSA

Irish 2017 VHF/UHF Contest

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IRTS VHF/UHF Field Day takes place over the weekend of 1st and 2nd July, with contesting covering 5 bands 50, 70, 144, 432 and 1296 MHz.
 
The Open Section covers all 5 bands, and there is a Restricted Section for contesters operating on just one bands.
 
The contest, which runs for 24 hours from 14:00 UTC on Saturday, coincides with similar contests in the UK and continental Europe, so it provides a great opportunity to work some DX on the higher bands.
 
Note that this is a field day contest with site and power supply requirements for anyone entering.
 
Full Details - http://www.irts.ie/contests